Weightloss and Eyesight

[Chellemetime 299]

I went to the eye doctor yesterday to get my yearly prescription for contacts. She said to me "Ok, I'm confused. What has changed with your health since last year?" I told her I had lost almost 80 pounds and she said that explains it. Evidently, when your overweight your body retains Fluid that affects your vision. She was confused because my vision is BETTER now than it was last year. She actually gave me a lower prescription. I've been wearing reading glasses with my contacts for the past 5 years. I don't have to do that anymore! I never imagined all of the things that being overweight interferes with. My Asthma is almost non-existent, I'm on my way to no high blood pressure meds, I barely ever get sick anymore, no more restless leg and all of my allergies are pretty much gone. I love my sleeve!

[able2cope 193]

I think that this is just great! Unfortunately I've got diabetes too, which 'is' getting better but I've some sort of cataract (not the usual type) behind my eye, so eyesight steadily gets worse - hopefully once this is seen too, I will be able to see better too. I'm so glad that everything is coming together for you - its great to hear the success stories of the sleeve

[Noor1969 150]

Wow! What a cool side effect of having the surgery! I am TERRIBLY nearsighted (my glass lenses are like Coke bottles, LOL) and would love to have my prescription go down. Hoping to be off the BP meds as well.

[jujubslim 95]

Wow I didn't know that. I hope my vision gets better it's horrible!!

[Chellemetime 299]

I think that this is just great! Unfortunately I've got diabetes too, which 'is' getting better but I've some sort of cataract (not the usual type) behind my eye, so eyesight steadily gets worse - hopefully once this is seen too, I will be able to see better too. I'm so glad that everything is coming together for you - its great to hear the success stories of the sleeve

I hope you can get the cataract taken care of and make some progress with your vision! Good luck with that!

[able2cope 193]

Thank you - I hope so too, but I have a feeling I will have to wait until it gets a lot worse before I can get it better.

[gomekast 559]

Do a search here and you'll find a few posts about eyesight getting better. Its pretty common.